Improvement in cooking apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

ANNA E. NEITZ, or NEw YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,142, dated January 6, 1874; application filed April 11, 1873.

To all whom fit may concern: Be it known that I, A. E. NEITZ, of New York city, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements relating to Cooking Apparatus, of which the following is a specifica* tion:l

The apparatus is intended for use in families, large or' small, for cooking yin warm weather. It is adapted for the burning of charcoal. A

' lire may be `made rapidly, and maintained in a vigorous condition for a brief period, suflicient for the cooking, and then allowed to expire.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section, showing a simple form of the apparatus arranged for 4cooking not only soup or the like in the main vessel, but also something in a frying-pan mounted above. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, a portion being represented as broken away. Fig. 3 is a vertical section, showing a more complex apparatus so far as relates to the main vessel. The soup or t-he like is in a supplementary vessel, and the main vessel may, at pleasure, contain only water, or may contain other'food. In this ligure, the central iiue is prolonged upward by the use of an additional piece.

`Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is a vessel, of sheet-tin or other suitable material, supported upon legs a, and havin g a large open tube, A1, extending up through its bottom to a little above the top. The re is made in this tube, and is thus completely inclosed by the water, soup, or other material which it is intended to cook. The fuel rests upon a grate, B, which is adapted to slide in grooves a. On withdrawing the grate at the close of a cooking operation, the `relics of the tire may be dropped. I propose to employ a pan, M, to receive the lire in such caseLand to receive any dropping ashes or sparks which may be emitted during the progress of the lire; but the pan may be in some cases omitted by resting the legs upon the hearth or any incombustible support. A2 is a stop-cock, by which the water may be drawn from the vesfits upon the vessel A, with a suitable hole to receive the upper end of the tube A1. On the top of the cover are fixed arms c, adapted to l support a frying -pan, E, and thus hold it exposed to the active current of hot gas rising from the tube A1. The capacity of the inter nal chamber A1, which I have designated as a tube, may be made greater at the bottom than at the top. It is preferable that it shall be without scam, and it is important that it shall be adapted to withstand a higher temperature, particularly at its upper portion. The upper end may be advantageously formed of a size to exactly match some of the standard sizes of stove-pipe, pieces of which may be attached, with elbows, or otherwise led into a l chimney, so that the fumes of the charcoal may escape. G is a piece especially adapted to so apply, andH is a closetting cover, on applying which the draft of the re will be stopped. D is a supplementary vessel, of a form corresponding to the vessel A, and having a corresponding internal tube, D.

In cooking certain kinds of food the vessel A contains simply water, and the cooking is,

effected in the vessel D,with the effect of modl ifying the heat to which the contents of the vessel D is exposed, on the principle employed in the common farina'kettle. g

The apparatus in other respects may be the same as before described. The apparatus may be modified in form without sacrificing all the advantages of the invention.

Handles maybe attached to any convenient i point to aid in the manipulation. A Aspout lmay be formed at a desired point at the end or side. I can employ two or more of the4 internal tubes A1 D', inorder to inclose the heating-surface. I can employ one set considera bly out of the center, to allow more room for the introduction of an ordinary pail or other vessel to be surrounded by the hot water. I can provide a partition across the vessel to allow the separate cooking of two kinds of food with out mixing, if desired.

Instead of removing the gra te B by drawing it out, it may forni a part of a platform, to which the legs are attached, and on which the vessel A rests. The platform and grate may, in such ease, be made of east-iron, and, fui therniore, may be formed with an open-work frame, extending` up 2t little Wzl-y within the tube A1, so as to retain the relies of the re and prevent their scattering` about when the vessel A is lifted Off. In such ease the grate may, if preferred, be sunk d little below the platform, so as to bring1 the re a. little lower.

I claim its my invention- 1. The open-topped vessel A A1, supports a, and pini M, in combina-tion With supplementary vessel D D andreniovable gra-te B, for joint operation, as herein speeiiied.

2. The supportingnrnis c, adapted to support fryingpen E, in combination with vessel A A1, supports a, and removable grate B, as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 1n y hand this 10th day *ofr April, 1873, in the presence ot two subscribing Witnesses.

ANNA E. NEITZ.

lditnesses:

ARNOLD HRMANN, IVM. C. DEY. 

